site_archiver@lists.apple.com Delivered-To: darwin-dev@lists.apple.com User-agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.1.4pre) Gecko/20091014 Fedora/3.0-2.8.b4.fc11 Thunderbird/3.0b4 On 4 Nov 2009, at 08:41, rohan a wrote: However, for a sparse file this continues to return same sizes for stat size and real size. This is an Apple UFS partition. Anyway, the answer is that (a) stat() won't return the information you want, Oh well. Peter -- Peter O'Gorman http://pogma.com _______________________________________________ Do not post admin requests to the list. They will be ignored. Darwin-dev mailing list (Darwin-dev@lists.apple.com) Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/darwin-dev/site_archiver%40lists.appl... On 11/04/2009 04:12 AM, Alastair Houghton wrote: Sorry for the stat distraction, I only tried it on this linux system before making the suggestion: $ stat sparse (output snipped) Size: 3221225472 Blocks: 8 But I see this morning that when I mount the same file system over NFS, on my mac: $ stat -s sparse (output snipped) st_size=3221225472 st_blocks=6291456 This email sent to site_archiver@lists.apple.com